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Sentences ending with shift

It's a job that has no eight-hours shift. [11]
He took a step backward, and his eyes made an ugly shift. [9]

More example sentences with the word shift in them

And he was wont to leave his weighty business affairs to shift for themselves while he attended the diocesan and general conventions of his Church. [9]
And he often wondered whether they did not get tired standing on their feet all day long, hesitating to ask them; speculated on their lives--flung as most of them were on a heedless city, and left to shift for themselves. [9]
Does he not virtually shift his ground and say that it is not a question for the Court, but for the people? [7]
When we drew up to shift horses, Jack would come to the door to inquire if there was aught she wanted, and to know how I was bearing up. [9]
Bob had managed to shift the subject from Jethro, not without an effort, though he had done it in that merry, careless manner which was so characteristic of him. [9]
Futile Edward's attempts to shift the conversation to the subject of his own obsession; the German was by far the more aggressive, he would have none of it. [9]
They left me to shift for myself, too, a la Bret Harte at Harvard. [5]
All I had to do was to shift some of their leading peculiarities, keeping the rest. [6]
I mention these things because, if, when I convict him in one falsehood, he is permitted to shift his ground and pass it by in silence, there can be no end to this controversy. [7]
We frequently selected the trout we wanted, and rested the bait patiently and persistently on the end of his nose at a depth of eighty feet, but he would only shake it off with an annoyed manner, and shift his position. [5]
We gathered about the table and made shift at loo until the fellow had retired, when the seconds proceeded to clear the room of furniture, and Lord Comyn and I stripped off our coats and waistcoats. [9]
But they discovered the danger in time, and made shift to avert it. [5]
Then it was that Mr. Carvel gave to Grafton the estate in Kent County and bade him shift for himself, saying that he washed his hands of a son who had acted such a part. [9]
Some minutes passed that he did not speak, making shift to raise his glass now and again, and I knew that he was gripped by a strong emotion. [9]
But Joan remained steadfast, and the questionings had to shift to other matters. [5]
While I cannot shift the responsibility from myself, I hold that, as a general rule, the commander in the field is the better judge of the necessity in any particular case. [7]
Speranski did not shift his eyes from one face to another as people involuntarily do on entering a large company and was in no hurry to speak. [2]
When Cousin Maud set forth all this with a right lamentable face I could not refrain my mirth, and I promised her that if she could send up a few dainty dishes from the kitchen, I would make shift to please our beloved guests. [10]
The Interviewer had sense and tact enough not to offer him an orange, and so shift the balance of obligation. [6]
If I should proclaim that they were protests against the scholastic tendency to shift the total responsibility of all human action from the Infinite to the finite, I might alarm the jealousy of the cabinet-keepers of our doctrinal museums. [6]
There were two powerful parties at Court; therefore to make a decision either way would infallibly embroil them with one of those parties; so it seemed to them wisest to roost on the fence and shift the burden to other shoulders. [5]
They say his positions were well known when he was nominated, and that he must not now embarrass the canvass by undertaking to shift or modify them. [7]
They shift their places a little, they change their relations to each other, they roll over and turn up new surfaces. [6]
Fletcher laughed, whipped out his hunting knife, and cut the thongs; but he and Willis had scarce got twenty paces from the officer before they seized poor Maisonville by the hair and made shift to scalp him. [9]
The chance had not been given him to shift his crews or to fling open his starboard gun-ports. [9]
We could find no matches, and so we tried to make shift with the pistols. [5]
All this time Mr. Bass had not moved, not so much as to lift his head or shift one of his great cowhide boots. [9]
I suspect we learn from our dressmakers to shift the costume of our minds, and slip on the new fashions of thinking all the more easily because we have been accustomed to new styles of dressing every season. [6]
It has borne its usual fruit with us, and neither foreign nor home critics can shift the responsibility of it upon our system of government. [4]
Why not let his father shift for himself, abide his own fate? [11]
Our social arrangement has this great beauty, that its strata shift up and down as they change specific gravity, without being clogged by layers of prescription. [6]
It was so hard to tell anything about the water; the damned things shift around so-- never lie still five minutes at a time. [5]
So we had half the fellows up, and giving them fishing-lines, rum, and provisions, with a couple of muskets and ammunition, we sent them off to shift for themselves, and, raising anchor, got on our way down the broad river, in perfect weather. [11]
Thus did we give utterance to everything we had meditated beforehand; and albeit the Elector at first made wrathful answer, and even made as though he would turn his back on us, each time we made shift to hold him fast. [10]
Denials, affidavits, elaborate explanations, two sides to any question; if it was too hot, I could change the name and shift the scene to a still more obscure town. [4]
You saw them enter with the lantern, saw them shift a cider press, uncover the floor, and there beneath, in a dry well, were barrels upon barrels of spirits, and crouched among them was a man whom you all knew at once--Laney's brother, Tom. [11]
I say he did not shift his ground, but that he brought forward his original charge and the evidence to sustain it yet more fully, but precisely as he originally made it. [7]
So 'gainst the deadly smother he could press With calm his lofty manhood; interpose Purpose divine, and at the last disclose For life's great shift a regnant readiness. [11]
Sellers went gossiping comfortably along: "Oh, they like to hear him talk, especially if their load is getting rather heavy on one shoulder and they want to shift it. [5]
One of the bear-leaders had made shift to strip the cords from his hands, and when my brother entered into the dark place where the prisoners lay, they flew at him to fell him. [10]
They would only be gone one night, and, as Maitresse Aimable said, the Sieur de Mauprat could very well make shift for once. [11]
Usually, when we alighted from our vehicle, the expression of mine host would sour, and his sir would shift to a master; while his servants would go trooping in again, with many a coarse fling that they would get no vails from such as we. [9]
When you buy a pound of a drug and the man asks you which you want, troy or avoirdupois, it is best to say "Yes," and shift the subject. [5]
The 5th was a mild, gray day, with the melting snow lying in patches on the brown bluff, and the sun making shift to pierce here and there. [9]

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